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40
Citations
6201
World Ranking
7346
National Ranking
2009

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2011 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ali Pinar is affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within earth sciences and computer science, focusing primarily on seismic activity and related geophysical phenomena as well as computational methods applied to these fields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Computer Science

The primary subfields of study are:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

Key research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ali Pinar demonstrate a strong focus on earthquake phenomena and seismotectonic analysis. Selected publications include:

  • "A preliminary report on the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye," 2023, published in Temblor
  • "Characteristics of the 2020 Samos earthquake (Aegean Sea) using seismic data," 2021, published in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • "Source characteristics and seismotectonic implications of the 26 September 2019 Mw 5.7 Silivri High-Kumburgaz Basin earthquake and evaluation of its aftershocks at the North Anatolian Fault Zone (Central Marmara Sea, NW Turkey)," 2021, published in Geophysical Journal International
  • "Fault geometry beneath the western and Central Marmara Sea, Turkey, based on ocean bottom seismographic observations: Implications for future large earthquakes," 2020, published in Tectonophysics
  • "An integrated critical approach to off-fault strike-slip motion triggered by the 2011 Van mainshock (Mw 7.1), Eastern Anatolia (Turkey): New stress field constraints on subcrustal deformation," 2021, published in Journal of Geodynamics

Ali Pinar has published frequently with several coauthors, evidencing collaborative work in their field. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Erhan Altunel
  • Zeynep Coşkun
  • Mustafa Erdik
  • Yojiro Yamamoto
  • Doǧan Kalafat

Their contributions appear repeatedly in prominent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Temblor
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Tectonophysics
  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

In addition to their scientific publications, Ali Pinar has received professional recognition within the computing community. They were named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2015 and an ACM Senior Member in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Community structure and scale-free collections of Erdős-Rényi graphs.

    C. Seshadhri;Tamara G. Kolda;Ali Pinar

  • Improving Performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication

    Ali Pinar;Michael T. Heath

  • VS30 mapping and soil classification for seismic site effect evaluation in Dinar region, SW Turkey

    Ali Ismet Kanlı;Péter Tildy;Zsolt Prónay;Ali Pınar

  • On Identifying Strongly Connected Components in Parallel

    Lisa Fleischer;Bruce Hendrickson;Ali Pinar

  • A Scalable Generative Graph Model with Community Structure

    Tamara G. Kolda;Ali Pinar;Todd D. Plantenga;C. Seshadhri

  • A Simulator for Large-Scale Parallel Computer Architectures

    Helgi Adalsteinsson;Scott Cranford;David A. Evensky;Joseph P. Kenny

  • Permuting Sparse Rectangular Matrices into Block-Diagonal Form

    Cevdet Aykanat;Ali Pinar;Ümit V. Çatalyürek

  • Optimization Strategies for the Vulnerability Analysis of the Electric Power Grid

    Ali Pinar;Juan Meza;Vaibhav Donde;Bernard Lesieutre

  • ESCAPE: Efficiently Counting All 5-Vertex Subgraphs

    Ali Pinar;C. Seshadhri;Vaidyanathan Vishal

  • Severe Multiple Contingency Screening in Electric Power Systems

    V. Donde;V. Lopez;B. Lesieutre;A. Pinar

  • A space efficient streaming algorithm for triangle counting using the birthday paradox

    Madhav Jha;C. Seshadhri;Ali Pinar

  • Path Sampling: A Fast and Provable Method for Estimating 4-Vertex Subgraph Counts

    Madhav Jha;C. Seshadhri;Ali Pinar

  • Finding the Hierarchy of Dense Subgraphs using Nucleus Decompositions

    Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce;C. Seshadhri;Ali Pinar;Umit V. Catalyurek

  • Triadic Measures on Graphs: The Power of Wedge Sampling

    C. Seshadhri;Ali Pinar;Tamara G. Kolda

  • Fast optimal load balancing algorithms for 1D partitioning

    Ali Pinar;Cevdet Aykanat

  • Measuring and modeling bipartite graphs with community structure

    Sinan G. Aksoy;Tamara G. Kolda;Ali Pinar

  • Peeling Bipartite Networks for Dense Subgraph Discovery

    Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce;Ali Pinar

  • Moment tensor inversion of recent small to moderate sized earthquakes: implications for seismic hazard and active tectonics beneath the Sea of Marmara

    Ali Pinar;Keiko Kuge;Yoshimori Honkura

  • Counting Triangles in Massive Graphs with MapReduce

    Tamara G. Kolda;Ali Pinar;Todd D. Plantenga;C. Seshadhri

  • Local algorithms for hierarchical dense subgraph discovery

    Ahmet Erdem Sariyüce;C. Seshadhri;Ali Pinar

  • Identification of severe multiple contingencies in electric power networks

    V. Donde;V. Lopez;B. Lesieutre;A. Pinar

  • Communication Requirements and Interconnect Optimization for High-End Scientific Applications

    S. Kamil;L. Oliker;A. Pinar;J. Shalf

  • Constructing and sampling graphs with a prescribed joint degree distribution

    Isabelle Stanton;Ali Pinar

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamara G. Kolda
Tamara G. Kolda Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
C. Seshadhri
C. Seshadhri University of California, Santa Cruz
Narumi Takahashi
Narumi Takahashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Yoshiyuki Kaneda Nagoya University
Bernard C. Lesieutre
Bernard C. Lesieutre University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruce Hendrickson
Bruce Hendrickson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ümit V. Çatalyürek
Ümit V. Çatalyürek Georgia Institute of Technology
Jean-Paul Watson
Jean-Paul Watson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Yoshimori Honkura
Yoshimori Honkura Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Tina Eliassi-Rad Northeastern University

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